Word: decent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open to Harvard undergraduates, the student can go as fast and as far as he pleases. To this there is one notable exception in the case of English Composition, perhaps the most fundamental and yet the most alighted study of the curriculum. Granting that the elements of grammar and decent writing can be learned only in the home and graded schools, there still remains a field for development of the ability to write the English language well which it is the duty of the college to cultivate. There are steps in the teaching of English as important...
...made by petitions signed by 35 members of the class. Also the elections will be held under the Australian ballot system at the Lodge of the 1877 Gate. Thus, not only will the voters have an opportunity to consider, propose and finally elect the best men, but a decent formality will be given a hitherto slap-dash election...
...himself born; there are but few men who can explain that rationally. When you are born, it becomes important to ask why. If you say you came to college in order to get a degree, it seems like saying you were born in order to get a decent funeral--you leave out all the interests of life coming between the birth and the grave...
...absence of decent toilet facilities in most of the Yard dormitories has been for years an irritating grievance. Although this deplorable state of affairs exists in all the Yard buildings except Hollis and Stoughton, it is particularly unfortunate in Holworthy and Thayer, which are reserved for Seniors; for the lack of these facilities seriously interferes with the segregation of the Senior class. The present Juniors, owing to the liberality of the Corporation and to the able management of the committee in charge of the Senior room allotment, have taken more rooms in the Senior buildings than any previous class. This...